Partition for refrigerators and the like.



G. F. WITTKOPP.

PARTITION Ion EEFRIGERATORS AND THB LIKE.

APPLICATION ILED SEPT. 16, 1912, l

Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

G. F. WITTKOPF.

PARTITION FOR REPRIGERATORS AND THB LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16, 1912.

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coLuMmA n ANoanAPH UNITE@ STATES FATFN'T @FFliQE GUSTAVE F. WITTKOPF, 0F ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO WESTERN REFRIGER- ATOR @a MFG. CO., OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

PARTITION FOR REFRIGERATORS .AND THE LIKE.

Application filed. September 16, 1912.

description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in partitions for refrigerators and the like, and particularly relates to refrigerators designed to hold bottled goods.

The object of iny invention is to construct an improved partition for dividing the interior of a refrigerator into an ice chamber and a bottle chamber, the said partition being slatted so that bottles or the. like will be exposed directly to the ice.

Ylilith the above purposes in view my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, pointed out in the claim and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, iii whiclid Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a refrigerator constructed according to my invention; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation of the refrigerator; Fig. 3 is a plan of the refrigerator; Fig. t is an enlarged detail sectional elevation illustrating the means whereby the slats are secured in position; and Fig. 5 is a sectional plan of the Slat-securing means.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings: 6 designates a rectangular double-walled refrigerator casing having insulation between the walls.

rThe numeral '7 indicates the inner metallic lining covering the side walls and bottom of the refrigerator.

A t each end of the refrigerator there is a vertically arranged metallic strip 8 having adjacent one of its margins a channel 9, and at its opposite margin a right angled flange 10. Arranged to be secured between the vertical strips 8 are the metallic slats 11, each one which has its body portion arranged vertically and its upper and lower margins bent to form flanges 19. and 13, each of which flanges inclines downwardly in a direction leading from the bottle charn- Specification of Letters Patent.

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ber to the ice chamber. In securing these strips in place they are spaced apart in order that the body of ice will be exposed to the bottle chamber.

The ice chamber is arranged to be filled with cracked ice, and the flanges 12 and 13 serve to prevent the ice from falling or moving into the bottle chamber between the slats. Secured to the slats intermediate their ends is a sheet metallic channeled strip 14, and secured to the wall of the bottle chamber is a pair of vertically alining sheet metallic channeled strips 15. Arranged to be secured between the strips 14 and 15 is a slatted partition 16, which partition serves the double purpose of stiftening and bracing the metallic slats of the ice chamber and dividing the bottle chainber into two separate compartments. Each of the slats 11 has `at each of its ends a right angled iiange 17 extending laterally the width of the vertical strip 8, and each flange 17 is arranged to occupy the channel 9 and extend to the right angled iiange 10 of the strip 8. 'lhe uppermost inclined frange 12, carried by the slat 11, occupies the space between the two end flanges 17, while the lowermost flange 13 carries with it an integral right angled flange 18 at each of its ends arranged to occupy the channels 9 in the vertical strips 8. In order to secure the vertical strips 8 and the slats 11 securiiig-devices such as nails 19 are eniployed, which extend through the flanges 17 and 18, through the vertical strips 8 and into the inner walls of the refrigerator.

A refrigerator constructed according to my invention may be made at a minimum of cost and articles, such as bottled goods, may be held in a refrigerated chamber directly exposed to the ice, but not in contact therewith. As a rule, such bottles are labeled and if placed directly in contact with ice, these labels are loosened and are, in most cases, removed by moisture from the bottles. The inner lining 7 is preferably made water-tight so that a quantity of water will be held in the bottom of the refrigerator, and in order to hold the bottles out of the water there is a rack 20 resting upon the bottoni of the bottle compartments.

I claim:

In a partition for refrigerators, a pair of vertically disposed sheet metal strips, op-

positely arranged on opposing Walls of the the Walls of the refrigerator, substantially i0 refrigerator, each strip comprising a right as shown and for the purposes stated. angled flange and a channel, a plurality of` In testimony whereof, I have signed my sheet lmetal slats arranged to be held by name to this specification, in presence of said strips, each slat having a vertically two subscribing Witnesses.

disposed body portion having inclined mar- GUSTAVE F. WITTKOPF. gins at its top and bottom, and right an- Witnesses: gled flanges at each of its ends, and means E. E. LONGAN,

for securing said flanges and said strips to E. M. HARRINGTON.

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